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From Friday's boos at Saint-Paul Cathedral's Queen's jubilee Thanksgiving service to a Monday morning leadership challenge at Westminster, the Conservative revolt against the prime minister has suddenly gone into overdrive. With two big by-elections coming up, why set the wheels in motion now?
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting to shore up his premiership on Wednesday amid a revolt by his own lawmakers who are angry over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street. FRANCE 24's Bénédicte Paviot tells us more.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Wednesday fighting to shore up his premiership after a revolt by his own lawmakers who are angry over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street.
Is he living on borrowed time or does Boris Johnson's brand of populism make the British PM scandal-proof? It is true that it is not a great optics when a Tory MP crosses the aisle to join the Labour opposition benches during the prime minister's question time but that seems to have at least stalled a backbench revolt against Johnson. We'll ask why and whether he can ride the storm.
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Local and regional elections were being held across the UK on Thursday that could prove historic in Northern Ireland and heap further pressure on embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson. FRANCE 24's Bénédicte Paviot reports from London.
If the inquiry by a committee of MPs finds that Johnson lied to parliament over illegal parties during Covid lockdowns, pressure will intensify for him to resign.View on euronews
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